1894 Yale Bulldogs football team

1894 Yale Bulldogs football
National champion (Billingsley, Helms, NCF) Co-national champion (Davis)
Conference	Intercollegiate Football Association
1894 record	16–0 ( IFA)
Head coach	William Rhodes (2nd year)
Captain	Frank Hinkey
Home stadium	Yale Field

1894 college football independents records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					16	–	0	–	0
Penn			–					12	–	0	–	0
Harvard			–					11	–	2	–	0
Purdue			–					9	–	1	–	0
Michigan			–					9	–	1	–	1
Chicago			–					14	–	7	–	1
Princeton			–					8	–	2	–	0
Brown			–					10	–	5	–	0
Beloit			–					6	–	3	–	0
Stanford			–					6	–	3	–	0
Wisconsin			–					5	–	2	–	0
Amherst			–					7	–	5	–	0
Cornell			–					6	–	4	–	1
Notre Dame			–					3	–	1	–	1
Minnesota			–					3	–	1	–	0
Tufts			–					6	–	5	–	0
Dartmouth			–					5	–	4	–	0
Illinois			–					4	–	3	–	0
Army			–					3	–	2	–	0
USC			–					1	–	0	–	0
Oregon Agricultural			–					2	–	1	–	0
Washington Agricultural			–					1	–	1	–	0
Washington			–					1	–	1	–	1
California			–					0	–	1	–	2
Oregon			–					1	–	2	–	1
Trinity (CT)			–					1	–	2	–	0
Utah			–					1	–	2	–	0
Lake Forest			–					3	–	4	–	0
Lafayette			–					5	–	6	–	0
Williams			–					1	–	3	–	0
MIT			–					1	–	4	–	0
Northwestern			–					1	–	5	–	0
Lehigh			–					5	–	9	–	0
Wesleyan			–					0	–	5	–	0

The 1894 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1894 college football season. The team finished with a 16–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, and National Championship Foundation, and as a co-national champion by Parke H. Davis.^[1][2]

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result
September 29	at Trinity*	Hartford, CT	W 42–0
October 3	Brown*	Yale Field • New Haven, CT	W 28–0
October 6	Crescent Athletic Club*	Yale Field • New Haven, CT	W 10–0
October 10	Williams*	Yale Field • New Haven, CT	W 23–4
October 13	vs. Lehigh*	New York, NY	W 34–0
October 17	vs. Dartmouth*	Hampden Park • Springfield, MA	W 34–0
October 24	Boston AA*	Yale Field • New Haven, CT	W 23–0
October 25	at Orange Athletic Club*	Orange, NJ	W 24–0
October 27	at Army*	West Point, NY	W 12–5
October 31	Volunteer (NY) Athletic Club*	Yale Field • New Haven, CT	W 42–0
November 3	at Brown*	Providence, RI	W 12–0
November 7	Tufts*	Yale Field • New Haven, CT	W 67–0
November 10	vs. Lehigh*	New York, NY	W 50–0
November 14	Chicago Athletic Assoc.*	Yale Field • New Haven, CT	W 48–0
November 24	vs. Harvard*	Hampden Park • Springfield, MA (The Game)	W 12–4
December 1	vs. Princeton*	New York, NY	W 24–0
*Non-conference game.

References

1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
2. 1894 Yale University football scores and results. College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved on January 28, 2014.